Wes Brown is a PASS chapter leader and SQL Server MVP. He writes for SQL Server Central and maintains his blog at http://www.sqlserverio.com. Wes is Currently serving as a Senior Lead Consultant at Catapult Systems. Previous experiences include Product Manager for SQL Litespeed by Quest software and consultant to fortune 500 companies. He specializes in high availability, disaster recovery and very large database performance tuning. He is a frequent speaker at local user groups and SQLSaturdays.

Great Content + Great Speakers = Awesome Event

All the evaluations have been tallied, its official SQLSaturday #97 was a hit! As a speaker I always like to know how well I did. As a competitor, I like to know how well I stacked up overall. SQLSaturday #97 had some heavy hitters with Conor Cunningham, Joe Celko and the Midnightdba’s in the house. I won’t release the full rankings to the public but I will share some metrics with you. If a speaker had two sessions they were not aggregated together, each session stands on its own.

The Stats

28 speakers signed up to speak and we had zero no shows. Out of those 9 were first time speakers at a SQLSaturday.

Top 3 speakers with more than ten evals ordered by Rating, Expectation and number of evals.

Jennifer McCown Afternoon
Ryan Adams
Jim Murphy

Top 3 speakers ordered by rating.

Jennifer McCown Afternoon
Ryan Adams
Jim Murphy

Top 3 speakers ordered expectation.

Jennifer McCown Afternoon
Jim Murphy
Conor Cunningham

Top 3 speakers ordered by number of evals.

Conor Cunningham
David Stein
Sean McCown

Average ratings For Whole Event

Rating

Expectation

Number Evals

4.42

2.46

22.60

Wow, I don’t know what else to say. It was a great event with awesome speakers. I can’t wait to see what next year looks like!